New twist to Malawi protests as HRDC makes fresh demands: ‘Reject Mwapasa as police IG’
Anti-Jane Ansah protests in Lilongwe have ended after organisers, Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) made fresh demands, asking parliament to reject the appointment of Duncan Mwapasa as the top cop in the country among others.
Fearless HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo presented the petition to government officials at Capital Hill to mark the end of the protests on day one.
“Mwapasa has brought disrepute into the police profession. He should not be the Inspector General,” said Mtambo.
In the petition seen by Nyasa Times, HRDC argue that under his belt at deputy police chief, Mwapasa failed to protect the abduction and killings if people with albinism and also that he failed to keep peace during protests, agitating protestors with firing live bullets in support of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration.
They have also accused Mwapasa of havinga a hand in murder of Polytechnic student activist Robert Chasowa, saying he is named in the Commission of Inquiry report.
HRDC state that Mwapasa is a “confessed DPP cadet” whose appointment is based on political patronage, nepotism and “politics of poverty of ideas” rather than on merit and professionalism.
Reads the petition: “Mwapasa’s appointment is clearly a typical President Mutharika’s ploy to maintain the Malawi policeservice under DPP capture as the expense of public interest.”
Mtambo has also asked the parliamentarians to reject the budget for the construction of two stadia for the privately owned Nyasa Big Bullets and Be Forward Wanderers.
He said it was illogical to fund privately owned football clubs when the government is failing to improve public services especially in health and education.
Conspicuously missing at the demos are opposition leaders; Malawi Congress Party president Lazarus Chakwera and his UTM counterpart Saulos Chilima who are pre-occupied with the landmark presidential poll case.
Mutharika won the first-past-the-post election with 38.5 per cent of the vote, compared with just over 35 per cent for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, his closest challenger. Chakwera, who has called the result “daylight robbery,” is challenging the results at constitutional court with Chilima, to seek a rerun.
The two are challenging the outcome alleging that the vote was marred by fraud and that result sheets were altered using typewriter correction fluid.
Embattled electoral commission chair Ansah, a judge of Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, has defended the use of correctional fluid in the results tallies and denies wrongdoing.
Malawi has enjoyed multi-party democracy since 1994, leading to relative political stability compared with other countries in the region. But the disputed election has led to a months-long political crisis that has brought thousands of young Malawians on to the streets. The demonstrations have been mostly peaceful but there have been outbreaks of violence in some instances.
Governance experts and commentators argue that Mutharika largely lacks public backing, having only secured 38.6% of the popular vote and that anti-government sentiment will likely grow if protesters continue to feel unheard, with Ansah’s continued service .
“ It is very likely that the more President Mutharika and Jane Ansah continue to ignore the issues raised by the protesters, frustrations will accumulate and this will eventually lead to protesters demanding fresh issues for Mutharika to address,” governance commentator Makhumbo Munthali told Nyasa Times on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, HRDC had reaffirmed that no individual takes Malawi as his or her personal property by inflicting more misery on poor and heavily taxed Malawians.
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HRDC and mtambo must fall is coming very shortly and it will be the massive one with all the bonafides supporters all over for both teams Bullets and Wanderers.
Kodi bwana Trapencewa, abvala zakudazi Chifukwa cha Maliro abambo awo komwe sanapitako chifukwa a Trapencewa anali otanganidwa ndi kukonza mademo.
Zikumveka kuti azimai asiya kuchita nao mademo chifukwa adzindikira kuti Trapence akumenyera ufulu oti Amuna adzikwatirana amuna okhaokha.
HRDC Your the best, big up we salute you. This is the democracy our for Father’s fault for us. We have to express our rights until justice prevails
These HRDC people have lost direction. They need to be consistent in their demands for demonstrating. Why are they changing tunes now? Should people demonstrate against Ansah or Mwapasa??
Have they told you they want to demonstrate against Mwapasa? They are saying parliament should not confirm him as IG and reasons have been given. Understand what the person is saying?
Talking about education….Oooh boy. Almost all universities have been turned into brothels because the girls can’t keep up with high cost of living. A room (yes a room and not a house) in Chikanda is cost as high as MK140,000.00 per month (4 beds and each bed costing 35,000). Government should consider building girls hostels at Chanco before we lose all this generation to HIV and AIDs. It is embarrassing that you can sleep with a college girl for a mere 1000 and the reason being that she can’t cope up with life at the college. Zodiak, Times, The nation, please do something about this. I beg you. You have the power to force the government to do something about this please. This is a government which works on gimmicks and can’t allow this embarrassing news to be your headline for a month without it doing something to correct this situation.
Mlomwe by nature of DULL. Will depend on hatred and croockedness to assail in life. Alomwe nonse ur good at nothing, that’s why you will always hate northerners! PERIOD
Join the discussion…who is idiot btween you and mlomwe you selfish people. mbwenuuuuuu
jonas you are a lomwe and you call others selfish? a lomwe calling anyone selfish really? After mutharika dies which is very soon, he more likely to come back from UNGA as cargo, the nightmare for you lomwes shall begin!
Ine si Cadet koma Inu okonda mademo mupusa mbamba
I see a certain ‘Rebel leader’ being born here. if this guy called Mtambo is not kept on a close watch I see him forming a rebel group because all signs of peace seem to be lacking in him. Trapense is just following blindly but God will talk to him silently one day.
Dear God, Help Trapence to stop following Mtambo Blindly. Trapence can do better on gat rights not this. please let him know his real job.
Let the war that this country so much deserves begin. With the arrogance and tribalism by muhlakho party, armed conflict is around the corner, just around…and with such a large following Mtambo will be a formidable war lord.
BRAVO MTAMBO FIRE DEM
Anthu olophera ndi choncho ,ma stadium atani.bullets ndi noma ndiwomwe tinavotera Apm kut awine komaso osewa ndi matimu adziko lathu lino choncho mpofunika kut boma litengeko mbali ma stadium ndi chitukuko cha dziko ,nde mtambo pita ukasetere ma lazer
Galu iwe wachabe wachabe sukudziwa omwe ukulankhula. No where in the world Government funds football clubs than only National team. MBUZI INU PITANI KU SCHOOL. Ask your Pitala to use his own money zomwe akumangira manyumbawa and NOT taxpayers money which is meant for Hospitals, real roads not fake ones we seen now.KUBA KUBA KOKHA KOKHA ANYANI INU. KULANKHULANSO KULEPHERA MKAMWA MANO 72
Join the discussion…ndi maganizo ake iwenso uli nawo ako . galu ndiweyo which world do you know. wampunzira kuti wafika pati/
Jonas you must be a standard 7 dropout no doubt about that. You are just too dull and weak in your head
I THINK ONE DROGBA IS MISSING THE POINT BY FAR BUT ANYWAY JUST TO REMIND HIM THAT
(1) OUT OF ALL THE POST MULTIPARTY PRSIDENTS, PETER MUTHALIKA HAS PROVED BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT THAT HE IS THE MOST TRIBALISTIC AND NEPOSTIC PRESIDENT
(2) MWAPASA IS FROM THYOLO AND A RELATION OF MUTHALIKA, THERE ARE BETTER POLICE OFFICERS THAT HAVE BEEN SIDELINED, KAINJA IS ONE OF THEM
(3) MWAPASA IS CONSIDERED A DPP CADET BECAUSE OF HIS OWN UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT, HE MWAPASA HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT HE IS TOO MUCH INTO DPP AFFAIRS UNLIKE KACHAMA BEFORE HIM
(4) MTAMBO WHETHER HE IS MTUMBUKA OR NOT IS FIGHTING FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR MALAWI FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL MALAWIANS INCLUDING THOSE POOR MALAWIANS JUST A FEW METRES FROM NDATA FARM.LETS YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN, WHEN LATE BINGU IMMEDIATELY LEFT UDF TO FORM DPP, IT WAS THE USUAL COURAGIOUS ONES THAT SUPPORTED HIM WHILE SOME OF YOU WERE STILL BOOTLIKING ATCHEYA MULUZI AT THE TIME THINGS WERE GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION
Pure tribalist Mtambo. I have been saying this for so long. The only reason Timothy is demonstrating is because he’s a tribalist, nothing else. Why is it that when government appoints somebody from the South there’s noise and whining especially from atumbuka but when someone from the North is appointed no Tumbuka says nothing? When Nundwe was appointed Commander of the Army, what did Mtambo and his tribalist cronies say? Ziiiiiii. How many Kumwendas, Mwafulirwas, Phiris, Kamangas, Mkandawires, Mughoghos, Chirwa’s, Kondowes, Gondwes, Bandawes etc, do we have in government and government departments? What if all these were from the South? Who are the Top Management in HRDC? Aren’t they all Tumbukas?
I always say that anzathu inu akumpoto inu, dziko la Malawi ndilatonse silanu nokha guys. In other parts of this country, say Central and Southern regions, we also have able-bodied individuals who can head different authority bodies, and not only Tumbukas. Because of your greed, anything government does you try to find a reason to complain. Because of that, see how lagging you are development wise, because it’s difficult to work with someone else who always whines and complains, thinking that he’s the best, wisest, glamorous individual who ever existed on this planet.
Northerners, please call down. Do not let hatred for other tribes drive your motives. Timothy Mtambo is doing just that. Look at what you’ve done to one beautiful Mzuzu city? Everywhere where there’s glass, you’ve broken. You’ve burnt tyres on roads and now the roads are full of potholes. You’ve burnt government offices and destroyed police stations. You think people from the South will suffer because of these actions?
This Timothy Mtambo is full of hatred, hatred for southerners and nothing else, that’s the sole reason for his demonstrations. The only reason his demonstrations are having momentum is because of they are supported by many northeners that are full of hatred. If Mwapasa is guilty, let the courts prove him guilty and he can’t be IG. But for sure, we shouldn’t let one Timothy Mtambo who feeds and defecates hatred drive our Malawi to its peril.
Dnt be quick to judge that these demostrations r full ov northeners….it seems u too have hatred to these ppo from the north
The truth is the mulhakos are the most most most most most x 1000000000 times tribalistic creatures ever to live in this land. I wish to warn you that your unprecedented tribalism has put your tribe hate in extreme hate and revulsion and you will pay for this heinous human crime for generations to come. This assertion will come to pass.
Timothy Mtambo he is someone special in our beloved country Malawi, only idiots are rejectecting him, he is a man who knows what he is fighting for, we don’t want this Tpex Government with full of Crukes!
Your point is baseless and luck merit…Some of you it seems you are blind and deaf.You can not see and hear what is wrong with this country
There’s nothing wrong in Malawi. The only “wrong” thing in Malawi is that one tribe wants to dominate everything: businesses, work, government, government departments, academia. The only problem is that it is a crime in Malawi to be a Lomwe. The only problem in this democratic Malawi it is a crime to be a DDP supporter. I don’t hate Northerners, a big bunch of them are just good people, very. My immediate boss is from Embangweni, he’s a very good guy. But there’s another bunch of stupid zealots like Timothy Mtambo who want to destabilise this country, all because they are full of hatred of one tribe Lomwe and DPP. Let us agree that this Malawi is for all of us, regardless of where we come from, what tribe we are. Coming from Thyolo and supporting DPP will never be a crime in Malawi, full stop. If one comes from this place and qualifies for a post, he’ll be given the job, same as we do with anybody from the North, full stop!!!!
I am from the North, but i hate this idiot called Mtambo. He is trying all he can, to throw Malawi into anarchy. Complete Rubbish guy.
Drogba wopanda nzeru
Timothy Mtambo is a nepotistic sycophant, masquerading as human rights defender when in actual sense he is furthering the cause of his Northern kinsmen and women.
It will be not be surprising when his next move will be matching against quota system. Udya mchenga mphwanga sunati. You’re playing a loosing game.
The quota system is unjust. It is the epitone of tribalism. How can you select people based on where they come from . Base selection on the grades. If you really believe that there should be no tribalism then the quota system should be one of the first things to go. It’s not about furthering the the cause of the Northern kins men , it’s about being fair to every Malawian citizen.
Let the people who get the best grades go to university. They shouldn’t be rejected just because they come from the North.
a balanced article from Nyasatimes.
I think this country is going towards anarchy and tribalism. This government has 80% from South as cabinet ministers. All parastestals are occupied by lhomwes. All government agencies are occupied by DPP sympathizers. The people from the north are completely marginalised. Justice is seriously being defeated by money. Our judges, except a few like Ivay and Dingiswayo, are accepting bribes and forget about the crying of the people.
I wonder why some stupid people from the North and South are still behind this nepotistic so called government. I think its all about money. Your people are being marginalised and because u alone is in this selfish boat u are defending this puppet government.
This Muthalika has rewarded Ben Phiri and Mchacha for their Treachery and theft and u crap hands for these thieves.
Malawi is sleeping
Ur are kidding Tumbukas are all over mumabungwe nde wish mbwenumbwenu yekhayekha
Who said it is a crime to be a Lomwe? Who said DPP members aren’t people same like us? Isn’t Malawi a democratic country and that a person
can choose to support any party he wants? Did people choose to be born Lomwes, Chewas? Does it mean that once you’re born Lomwe or Chewas or Yao you can’t support DPP and work in government? Who said only Tumbukas are the only people worthy to be writing in government? If Malawi is being destroyed, or will be destroyed, it be done by people from the North, who are stone greed and wants all to be theirs.
You don’t have a point you,all you know is a tribalist remarks..SHAME ON YOU
The point is that the government officials are mostly selected from their affiliation with specific tribes. If selection was less biased and based more on people’s credential. Most people would most have a problem with It.
I ain’t got no….🎶🎵
Now when I came out I said it was just about jen ansa, but this is how we gon do it… , —— phiri, —— vuwa, ——- bagus ndi tima deputy minister tonse. & if u wanna be down with dpp then —— too! Any of u cadets that wanna bring it bring it. Nyawu queen —— too ndi school kako kosalongosokako.
Zopanda ntchito izi kungatayisanapo nthawi apa
I think ndiwe bulutu. Just shut up
The goodness is that you are just thinking
Bulutu ndiee opanda zochita
Kwa iweyo ndizopanda ntchito bcoz u r one of the beneficiaries of the Tippex government.
It looks like u r the Cadet daughter, enjoying on our hard earned tax.
Mungotaya nthawi yanu a chi na fans ya Arafat ndi Lazalo. Atsogoleri timasankha povota osati ku ma demo. Above all, all leadership, good or bad comes from Heaven. Lazalo as a fake pastor knows this well. No matter he and Arafat may wish to bulldoze themselves, if heavens say No, it’s No.
Extreme hatred….anybody from the South is an enemy…